Anyone who's been active in the gaming scene for a few years knows about "The Superhero Curse". I'm not exactly sure when it started, but the earliest I remember it, someone was trying to make a game based off of the pen and paper RPG called "Champions", by Steve Jackson Games. That turned out to be the utmost in vaporware. Then the guys who did X-Com gave it a shot with a turn-based superhero game called Guardians of Justice. They showed it off at E3 for a couple years before letting it die its own unnatural death